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Sarah Swanson
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Author of Best Little Book of Birds: the Oregon Coast and Best Little Book of Birds: Cascades and Columbia Gorge🦉 she/her #birding #embroidery #oregon
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Congrats! I thoroughly enjoyed Absolution and look forward to completing my SR collection and reading the new intro. 🐊 🐇
Today's the pub day for the trade paperback of the fourth Southern Reach novel, Abaolution. A NYT bestseller and LA Times book prize finalist, Ab is my wildest novel yet. Read more in this NYT interview (free article) www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/b...
Jeff VanderMeer Writes His Strangest Novel Yet (Published 2024)
www.nytimes.com
I couldn’t find his @, thank you!
I love finding my friends’ books at independent bookstores! I hit the jackpot at Paulina Springs Books in Sisters, OR today.
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No kings only kingfishers, kinglets, and kingbirds!
Rally in Bend, Oregon, drew thousands ….
#nokingsday #birders
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I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
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HAVE YOU EVER SEEN TWO OYSTERCATCHERS taking a bath in a tidal pool? No, of course not. But now you have!
Thank you! I think it needs a little more ironing, but I’m really happy with it.
Remember when I was using all those blue and green threads? There were many great guesses about what bird I was working on, but no one guessed magpie! I was inspired by a Neko Case song that mentions one.
#embroidery #birds
Looks like a Cooper’s Hawk! Long head makes it a Coop or sharp-shinned. Big head makes me lean toward Coop.
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Your moment of calm: A white-tailed kite hunting above the Tomales Bay Trail, near Point Reyes Station.
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Save the date for 45th annual Wild Arts Festival at Wingspan Event Center in Hillsboro on December 6 & 7!

Just in time for the holidays, you can purchase nature-inspired art, meet some of your favorite authors, and find great items in the Silent Auction.

👉Tickets on sale: www.wildartsfestival.org
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Portland... such a hard-scrabble hellscape there's hardly time to look out for wasps and put up signs so everybody can get along... let alone hand draw the wasp amid all the chaos...
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Your moment of calm this morning, in totally unwartorn Portland. Cedar waxwings lit by the sun, preening on branches.
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Big legal victory for the Streaked Horned Lark! A federal judge ruled that the USFWS’s decision to list the bird as “threatened” instead of “endangered” was unlawful. This decision offers new hope that the lark will finally receive the stronger safeguards it urgently needs. bit.ly/StreakedHorn...
Legal Victory Puts Streaked Horned Lark on Path to Greater Endangered Species Protections
In response to a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and Bird Alliance of Oregon, a federal judge found that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2022 determination that the streaked horned...
birdallianceoregon.org
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With AI, the race to hedge bets, or outright say stupid shit like "we're like the dinosaurs before the asteroid, we need to adapt", is so incredibly dangerous because the stakes are so high across multiple industries and also involve theft, excessive resource usage, etc. 6/?
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Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.
It’s maybe my favorite part. (1 of 8 boxes)
It’s not hoarding if there are cute boxes.